7.22.2010

7.14.2010

I entered the 3rd Ward Open Call competition for a chance to win $5000, a gallery show and a couple months in New York. Please help me out by rating my artwork at mashanda.3rdward.com. You can vote once per day!

6.17.2010

6.05.2010

So I drew Nick Cave, but as always, when I go to color an image, things get weird.What do you guys think of the colors? Too zombie? Is it possible to be too zombie? What color should it be? Here's the black and white version, to help you think.

5.27.2010

Here's the cross stitch pillow of Gary that I've been working on for my boyfriend's birthday. It's maybe not as a ridiculous as I planned, maybe it needed some hearts or lace or something, but I like the way it came out.

5.08.2010

This is what I'm currently working on, a plush iPhone plug. As you can see, this side is built, just needs some more painting, and the other side of course. The goal, a plush box of cords, like this one living in my kitchen.

4.12.2010

This is from the April 2010 issue of UCLA Magazine. In case you can't read it, it says:

"MASHANDA SCOTT's deceptively simple description of her work - "I currently draw and build things in Los Angeles" - belies a rare ability to see out of the ordinary. The young LA artist used that vision to good effect in her plush sculpture of Royce Hall on our cover, a unique sculpting vision that has also resulted in, among other things, a plush bicycle and public telephone. The Seattle native graduated from the esteemed Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and her work has been exhibited at L.A.'s Black Maria Gallery and Flock Shop. She also stays busy self-publishing 'zines."

As the new decade begins it seems time to stop in the forest, stick our wet noses in the air and try to sense what’s approaching. Guest curator Aaron Smith says it’s a group of female artists that are moving fast, bringing with them imagery that is beastly and beautiful, funny and ferocious.

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Sarah Williamson, Mashanda Scott, Nicole Adee Dreyfuss, Connie Wong, Grace Kim, Brianna Harden, Saejean Oh, Alisha Amirkhanian, Shannon Freshwater and Daniaelle Simonsen are the young women who create work that is fearlessly candid and filled with the beauty and danger of nature.

Aaron Smith is a painter who has mounted several solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, with reviews in the Los Angeles Times, Art Ltd. and the Chicago Sun Times among others. He attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California where he is now an Associate Chair. He was the first Artist in Residence at the J. Paul Getty Museum.